内容简介

Concepts in Programming Languages elucidates the central concepts used in modern programming languages, such as functions, types, memory management, and control. The book is unique in its comprehensive presentation and comparison of major object-oriented programming languages. Separate chapters examine the history of objects, Simula and Smalltalk, and the prominent languages C++ and Java. The author presents foundational topics, such as lambda calculus and denotational semantics, in an easy-to-read, informal style, focusing on the main insights provided by these theories. Advanced topics include concurrency, concurrent object-oriented programming, program components, and inter-language interoperability. A chapter on logic programming illustrates the importance of specialized programming methods for certain kinds of problems.

作品目录

Part I. Functions and Foundations: 1. Introduction

2. Computability

3. Lisp: functions, recursion and lists

4. Fundamentals

Part II. Procedures, Types, Memory Management and Control: 5. The Algol family and ML

6. Type systems and type inference

7. Scope, functions and storage management

8. Control in sequential languages

Part III. Modularity, Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming: 9. Data abstraction and modularity

10. Concepts in object-oriented languages

11. History of objects: simula and smalltalk

12. Objects and run-time efficiency: C++

13. Portability and safety: Java

Part IV. Concurrency and Logic Programming: 14. Concurrent and distributed programming

15. The logic programming paradigm and prolog by Krzysztof Apt

Appendix: additional programming examples

Glossary.